Spuij Mariken, Prinzie Peter, Boelen Paul A
Department of Child and Adolescent Studies, Utrecht University, PO Box 80140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Department of Pedagogical Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
J Ration Emot Cogn Behav Ther. 2017;35(1):60-77. doi: 10.1007/s10942-016-0236-0. Epub 2016 Apr 28.
Negative thinking is seen as an important mediating factor in the development of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a syndrome encompassing debilitating symptoms of grief. No measure of specific grief related cognitions is available yet. Based on an adult measure of negative thinking in adults we developed a questionnaire for children, the Grief Cognitions Questionnaire for Children (GCQ-C). This study investigated several psychometric properties of the GCQ-C. Both reliability and validity were investigated in this study, in which hundred fifty-one children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) participated. Findings showed that items of the GCQ-C represented one underlying dimension. Furthermore, the internal consistency and temporal stability were found to be adequate. Third, the findings supported the concurrent validity (e.g., significant positive correlations with self-report indices of PGD, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder), convergent and divergent validity of the GCQ-C. This study provides further evidence for the importance of negative thinking in PGD in children and adolescents.
消极思维被视为持续性悲伤障碍（PGD）发展过程中的一个重要中介因素，PGD是一种包含使人衰弱的悲伤症状的综合征。目前还没有针对特定悲伤相关认知的测量方法。基于一种成人消极思维测量方法，我们为儿童开发了一份问卷，即儿童悲伤认知问卷（GCQ-C）。本研究调查了GCQ-C的几种心理测量特性。本研究对151名儿童和青少年（年龄在8至18岁之间）进行了信效度调查。结果表明，GCQ-C的项目代表了一个潜在维度。此外，发现其内部一致性和时间稳定性是足够的。第三，研究结果支持了GCQ-C的同时效度（例如，与PGD、抑郁和创伤后应激障碍的自我报告指标显著正相关）、聚合效度和区分效度。本研究为消极思维在儿童和青少年PGD中的重要性提供了进一步的证据。
